It is hardly surprising that the Greek police once again did nothing to prevent Golden Dawn nazi violence (Golden Dawn is largely supported by the Greek capitalists, the government and the church, as a willful thug against militants, workers and the poor, and more than half of the police vote for this openly neonazist party) if not actively participating in or covering the organisation of what looks as a death trap for a well-known radical, member of the metalworkers union and antifa hip-hop artist in a working class district, near the spot where a few days ago 8 members of the communist party (KKE) were also brutally assaulted by Golden Dawn nazis.

It is hardly surprising the silence of all the mass media, that are kept alive due to the government's vast loans and benefits, that either decided to mention the assassination as a "fight after an arguement about football" or to not mention it at all. They are the same mass media that promote every misanthropic Golden Dawn activity as an "opposition to the system's flaws", and lately as a realistic government partner for the future. They are of course the voice of their owners, the same few families of capitalists, owners of a shitload of shiptanks, banks and hotels that support the right-wing government and its thuggish little counterpart on the streets, the Golden Dawn, in what they see as a Golden opportunity to get rid of workers rights and turn Greece into a proper labour camp under the nationalist and religious kitsch.

It is worth noticing that this is a hard time for the government and their nazi counterparts, as even after their full scale assault on anarchists, squatters, and workers' struggles, the movements seems to find again its momentum, with the current struggles of the teachers, the hospital workers etc.

The name of the murderer is Georgios Roupakias (Γεώργιος Ρουπακιάς), 45 years old, and is described as a well-known right-wing thug from Piraeus.

The police continues its "investigations" at the Golden Dawn offices. To get the picture, according to topontiki.gr a Golden Dawn parliamentary representative arrived and parked in front of the policemen on a parking spot reserved for the disabled (a social group the Golden Dawn sees unfit to reproduce and live whatsoever according to their agenda) and lead the policemen outside the offices, and no fucks were given. Ofcourse all this seems like nothing more than a bad theatrical performance to reinstitute the image of the "democratic" state against the edges (both extreme right and left are accused for violence in a tasteless rhetorics where even the victim are called for for provoking their slaughterers), since it has been more than 10 hours that the murderous ambush took place, and there is nothing the police would be able to come out with out of their friendly offices where many of them already visit as party members anyway. What they want is to seize the moment away from the movement, to play the cars of a democratic state against all edges, and of a Golden Dawn "persecuted by the system".

Let us not forget that there is a constant gathering at the spot of the murder, where the demonstrations of 17:00 and 18:00 will take place. There are also calls for demonstrations this morning with the teachers and 18:00 in most cities across Greece.

Once again: There is no justice, there is just us.

by the father of Pavlos: Pavlos’ friends made a remark against Golden Dawn inside a cafe where they were watching a football match. Somebody from a nearby table overheard them and made a phonecall to Golden Dawn members. Golden Dawn squads arrived almost simultaneously with DIAS motorbike police. Pavlos tried to help his friends evade the scene, but he was ambushed by another Golden Dawn squad and surrounded. Then another Golden Dawn associate drove with his car opposite in an one-way street, stopped and stabbed him to death, while the DIAS policemen did not intervene. One girl asked them to help but they didn’t. They only approached afterwards to arrest the man with the main suspect.

by police-affiliate journalists: the 45 year old that was arrested by the police, admitted being the one who murdered Pavlos and being a member of the Golden Dawn neonazi party.

by the mayor of Keratsini: the attackers were well-known neonazi members, this is only one of a series of violence against mainly immigrants.

by other local residents: it all seemed like an ambush and not an arguement, there were dozens of people hunting down and surrounding one (Pavlos), their faces and uniforms resemble to the ones that attacked the communist party (KKE) members a few days earlier.

All the mass media, tv, web and radio, continue to spread confusion, hosting Golden Dawn guest speakers in a pathetic attempt to turn things around. One of the most hideous tv personas (called "parrots" in Greece for their repetition of government propaganda) notorious for his slander against strikes, demonstrations and workers struggles, Aris Portosalte even tried to convince a Golden Dawn parliamentary representative that they have to make sure that nobody would speak about Golden Dawn in such an accusatory way!

At the time, there is a heavy police presence around Golden Dawn offices, officially due to an "investigation" (as if the other attackers would hide in their central offices), but the whole scene seems rather as a cordon of protection to the state’s useful parastate thugs.

[Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris] told Skai radio claimed that there were no political motives behind the attack and that opponents were unjustly accusing the party of creating "a climate of polarization and war".

The 45-year-old suspect arrested over the fatal stabbing of 34-year-old hip hop artist Pavlos Fyssas in the southern Athens suburb of Amfiali, early on Wednesday, arrived at the scene of the crime with the ‘intention to kill," a Greek Police spokesman said on Wednesday.

According to the Greek police official the suspect alleged he had not been present when a group of right-wing extremists scuffled with a group of friends who were watching an Olympiakos vs Paris St Germain Champions League match in a cafeteria in the area of Keratsini late Tuesday, but was called to the scene to strengthen the presence of his fellow extreme right supporters.

Police reports suggested that the suspect arrived outside the cafeteria, parked his vehicle and using a knife proceeded to stab the victim twice.

Dias patrol officers who were called to the scene saw Fyssas on the ground while witnesses pointed to the 45-year-old as the culprit of the attack.

Police officers conducting a search of the suspeect's house in Nikaia, southeastern Attica, confiscated a tazer and retrieved a Golden Dawn party card from a garbage bin outside his residence.

According to the Greek police spokesman the suspect was a regular visitor to a local Golden Dawn branch.

The lumpen profile of the perpetrator of the murder in cold blood of Paul Fyssas is typical for members who enlists the Golden Dawn . Son of immigrants who grew up in Germany abandoned in Athens, G.Roupakias fired two years ago from a private company in which time he accused of fraud.

Then joined together with his wife , the Golden Dawn which began offering paid services . According to exclusive information of Tvxs.gr, from neighbors and people with whom he was in contact , the Roupakias paid from the fund of the Golden Dawn to participate in beatings of migrants, mainly around the area of ​​Nice and Piraeus . The professional manner in which he murdered the unlucky Paul Fyssas shows that had experience in the stabbings .

One of the issues is invited to consider the police are and involvement in bullying at Perama last week. In any case, the fact that the perpetrators of the attack were left undisturbed in Perama , seems emboldened members of the Golden Dawn, who felt that they can act without consequences. The same impression had formed and Roupakias than previous attacks in which he participated .

Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens on Friday to protest against a violent attack on Communist party members by black-shirted supporters of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party which left nine people in hospital with serious injuries.

In what was described as a murderous attack – and the most serious violence since the extremist group was elected to the country's parliament last year – about 50 men wielding crowbars and bats set upon leftists as they distributed posters in a working-class district of the capital late on Thursday.

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"It was very well organised and the most serious incident yet," he told the Guardian. "They are no longer only targeting immigrants in the middle of the night. They are deliberately increasing tensions, expanding their agenda of hate, by going for leftists."

Earlier this year, the Muslim Association of Greece received a letter bearing the insignia of the group and an implicit threat that its members would be "slaughtered like chickens" unless they left the country. Marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks this week, the party posted a vehemently antisemitic diatribe on its website denouncing "world Zionism [as] the architect of global terrorism".

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Surveys released by the pollsters Public Issue and Pulse in recent days confirmed that the extremists – who recently blasted people attending a "Greeks only" food handout with the official anthem of Nazi Germany – were the nation's fastest growing group and, at 13% and 15% respectively, its third biggest political force.

Government to table emergency legislation after murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas at ultra-nationalist rally

The Greek government has hinted that it will seek to ban Golden Dawn after the far-right party was linked to the murder of a leading leftwing musician in Athens.

As violence erupted on the streets and demonstrators protested after the fatal stabbing of Pavlos Fyssas, a prominent anti-fascist, the public order minister, Nikos Dendias, cancelled a trip abroad saying the government would table emergency legislation that would seek to outlaw the group.

Amid renewed political tensions between the extreme left and right, the new law would re-evaluate what constituted a criminal gang, he said.

"Neither the state will tolerate, nor society accept, acts and practices that undermine the legal system," the minister told reporters, adding that the attack showed "in the clearest way the [party's] intentions".

Voted into the Greek parliament for the first time last June, the neo-fascist Golden Dawn has been widely accused of employing violence to further its ratings in the polls.

The socialist Pasok party, the junior member of Antonis Samaras's two-party coalition, has campaigned openly for it to be banned, saying it should be considered a criminal gang.

The 34-year-old rapper died within minutes of being stabbed in the chest when he and a group of seven friends were set upon by around 30 black-clad supporters of Golden Dawn in the working-class district of Keratsini.

Eyewitnesses said the singer was stabbed several times by a man who suddenly appeared in a car after being phoned by members of the mob. The attack bore all the hallmarks of a premeditated assault, they said.

The alleged perpetrator, a 45-year-old man who was arrested when police rushed to the scene, later confessed to being a member of Golden Dawn. His wife, who was also detained, admitted having attempted to hide incriminating evidence, including party credentials linking her husband to the extremist organisation, when he called her, panic stricken, after the murder. Greek media cited police as saying the man was not only a sympathiser of Golden Dawn but visited its offices in Keratsini "five or six times" a week.

With parties across Greece's entire political spectrum condemning the killing, the far-right group vehemently denied it had any connection with the crime or the alleged culprit. In a rare intervention, the president, Karolos Papoulias, warned: "It is our duty not to allow any space whatsoever to fascism - not even an inch."

Fyssas, who performed under the stage name Killah P, would be the first Greek to have died at the hands of Golden Dawn, which until recently reserved its venom exclusively for migrants. Within hours of his death sending shockwaves through Greek society, the killing was being described as an "assassination."

Greece's third largest party and fastest growing political force, Golden Dawn currently controls 18 seats in the 300-member parliament. It appears to have been emboldened by its soaring popularity on the back of economic desperation.

In an atmosphere brittle with anger, uncertainty and fear, politically motivated violence has escalated, with the ultra-nationalists being blamed for attacks on communist activists last week and on a rightwing mayor in the south over the weekend.

Speculation is rife that the leadership of Golden Dawn may have lost control over a party whose grassroots supporters view themselves as soldiers in an armed struggle aimed at overthrowing a political establishment they blame for the country's woes.

"It is up to the government now to deal with Golden Dawn once and for all," said Giorgos Kyrtsos, a prominent political commentator. "We know very little about the inner workings of Golden Dawn, and whether its leadership has lost control [over its members]. But what we do know is that, for the first time, the government has them in a corner."